Islamic State claims attack on Italian missionary in Bangladesh

[muriel_volestrangler]

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for the shooting of an Italian missionary in Bangladesh, the fifth attack in recent months the militants said they had carried out in the country.

Islamic State members shot Piero Parolari, a doctor, with a gun and silencer, the group's Bangladesh affiliate said in an Arabic-language statement on a website it uses. The statement also said the group had attacked a member of the Bahai religious community and murdered a politician it identified as Rahma Ali.

Parolari was shot and wounded in the neck in an attack by three assailants in northern Bangladesh on Wednesday, police and a medics said. The attack occurred in Dinajpur district, around 400 km (250 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka.

The attack follows the murder in Bangladesh of another Italian aid worker in late September and a Japanese citizen in early October. Both were also claimed by Islamic State.

http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-claims-attack-italian-missionary-bangladesh-133250313.html

[Trajan]

1. Bald faced pride in cold blooded murder

The most shameful kind of pride ...

[trotsky]

2. Not when you believe that killing people pleases your god. n/t

[Trajan]

3. I do not agree

It's shameful whether or not belief in God is part of the equation ... The act stands to be judged by itself, isolated from a pretense of religious belief ...

[cleanhippie]

4. Yet in cases like this, the acts are directly influenced by religious belief.

[Trajan]

5. I understand ... But I wouldn't allow belief as a justification

We all need to be to following the same rule book

Morality stand apart from theology .. Theists will try to justify abhorrent actions by referring to their creed, but we know better ...

[cleanhippie]

6. We're in complete agreement. Belief should excuse behavior, yet that's what's given.

Whether it's simple discrimination or outright slaughter, religious belief is the excuse.